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Freedom is a necessary precondition. Matzah, the flat unleavened bread eaten over the festival, symbolises freedom in multiple ways. According to the Haggadah, the narrative read at the Passover meal, matzah initially represents “the bread of poverty”, the hard, scarcely palatable food of slaves. However, it subsequently becomes the bread of liberty, baked from the unproved dough our ancestors hastily took with them to furnish their first meal in freedom. It is thus…